Parliament of Serbia

The Parliament of Serbia or National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (in Serb Cyrillic Serb НароднаскупштинаРепубликеСрбије and in transliterated Narodna skupština Republike Srbije), exerts part of the Legislative power in Serbia. The Serb parliamentary system comprises only one room (Monocamérisme). The president of the Parliament is Oliver Dulić (DS); he was elected with this function the May 23rd 2007.

The Parliament of Serbia is located on the Place Nikola Pašić (Trg Nikole Pašića), in the center of Belgrade. It moved into the current building the July 23rd 2006.

Structure and history

The architect Konstantin Jovanović conceived plans for the Parliament of Serbia in 1891. But a contest was open in 1901, gained by the architect Jovan Ilkić, who, in fact, proposed an alternative of the project of Jovanović. The first stone of the building was posed by the king Pierre Ier of Serbia in 1907. Construction was delayed by the First World War; Ilkić died in the concentration camp of Nežider and its plans were lost. After the war, construction began again with new plans of Pavle Ilkić, the son of Jovan Ilkić; it accepted the assistance of the Russian architect Nikolaj Krasnov, in particular for interior installation. Work was completed only in 1936. The building is caracteric academic style Serb of the end of the XIXe century and beginning of the XXe century.

A sculpture of Toma Rosandić, Igrali konji vrani (the black Horses played), was set up in front of the building in 1939.

Before becoming the seat of the Parliament of Serbia, it was that of the Parliaments of Yugoslavia (Royaume of Yugoslavia, democratic Fédération of Yugoslavia, socialist Federal republic of Yugoslavia, Federal republic of Yugoslavia) and of the République of Serbia-Montenegro.

Current composition

See also: Serb legislative Elections of 2007

Organization

  • President: Oliver Dulić (DS, Democratic party)

  • Vice-presidents:
Miloljub Albijanić (G17 More)
Nataša Jovanović (SRS, Serb Radical party)
Radojko Obradović (DSS-NS, Democratic party of Serbia)
Esad Džudžević (BDSS, Bosnian Democratic party of Sandžak)
Božidar Delić (SRS, Serb Radical party)
Milutin Mrkonjić (SPS, Socialist party of Serbia)

  • Secretary: Tamara Stojčević

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